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Originally Posted by hiaspire
Your Giants example is just another case supportive of my point about existing teams often knowing more about a pitcher's health who they no longer want to keep than an unsuspecting new one.
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How do you know that the Giants know more about Schmidt's health than the "unsuspecting" Dodgers, who put their money on the line for him? How do you know that they are "unsuspecting"? Are you somehow "plugged in" and know exactly what due-diligence they did before signing Schmidt?
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What "evidence" is there that all those collective highly debated issues over the years (and I'm not cherry-picking in hindsight, as I'll discuss any of those from A to Z - or Agbayani to Zito - and any more to come this off-season) should not be looked at from a different perspective to shed light on a potentially wayward calculation otherwise?
I'll add the context for those examples I think are way off base from what I see on the field, and with that comes better results I believe. And then we get to see what happens on the field.
As I've said, it is not that I think such ways of thinking are bad... just that some of the expressed conclusions seem vastly different from my own opinions at times.
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Sounds like you believe your way of thinking is quite superior to the quantitative analytical way of thinking. Every sentence in the above quote indicates an attitude of superiority in your methods in terms of predicting
better results, and you display the very condescension of our "error-prone" analyses that you YOURSELF have whined to us for years to cut out of our posts.
This is why I write that you are disrespectful and, shall I say it, hypocritical as well. I can't change your way of thinking. Only you can.
BTW, I highly doubt that Schmidt signed with the Dodgers due to his own health concerns and wanting to stick to his long-time trainer. That's seems like a load of spin and a pretty absurd conclusion to draw, but again you may be "plugged in" and have some special knowledge of everyone's thought process that went into that signing. Unless you are, I'll use a David Letterman line used on guest Bill O'Reilly......"With all due resepct, somehow I get the feeling that about 60% of what you say is a load of crap".